{"id":3528,"date":"2011-09-02T08:35:05","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T13:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=3528"},"modified":"2011-09-02T08:35:05","modified_gmt":"2011-09-02T13:35:05","slug":"jewel-weed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=3528","title":{"rendered":"Jewel weed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/jewel-3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/jewel-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"jewel-3\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3529\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>This jewel weed grows along the roadside downhill from me, in an area where my small stream passes through a culvert under the road.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In the <a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=3514\">previous post<\/a>, I mentioned jewel weed as a plant that might grow well in the dark, moist area under my deck. As luck would have it, there is a stand of jewel weed along a branch downhill from me, so I can steal some seeds down there.<\/p>\n<p>The native wild jewel weed grows in the shady undergrowth along small streams. It has dangling, horn-shaped flowers. In the fall, it forms elongated seed pods. When the pods are ripe, taut fibers along the seed pod are like springs. If you touch a ripe pod, it will explode with a surprising amount of force and fling seeds as far as 10 feet. It&#8217;s a magical little plant, even without the seed bombs.<\/p>\n<p>Michael&#8217;s suggestion was that I gather some jewel weed plants when the pods are ripe and lay the plants under the deck. When the pods explode, they&#8217;ll seed the area under the deck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This jewel weed grows along the roadside downhill from me, in an area where my small stream passes through a culvert under the road. In the previous post, I mentioned jewel weed as a plant that might grow well in the dark, moist area under my deck. As luck would have it, there is a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=3528\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jewel weed&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainable-living","category-the-land"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}